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Originally Posted by RocHard
I don't think Bush is the brightest bulb in the bunch, but I have great faith in our government leaders - the ones directly below Bush. Someone somewhere has noticed that we are running out of oil and has positioned the US to be in the right place - The Middle East. Think about it: When the oil runs out we'll have a huge base in Iraq. Maybe even Iran, Syria, and perhaps Saudi Arabia.
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Which is why you're going to see Russia, China and India all assert their presence more forcefully there in the future. Downside of course that it's hard to maintain a province so far from the center of empire... witness the problems the french had in indochina, or the british with india. Ever increasing dollars pumped in, ever decreasing returns pulled out.
I'm no nostradamus, I don't claim to know the future better than any other reasonably well informed individual... but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand where the next big conflict will be, and over what the conflict will be... barring a global catastrophie like cascade greenhouse effect, rapid and immediate end of oil, global pandemic with 70% kill ratio or a meteor or some shit.
